Exhibitions
Where We Live? Looking for safe ground 2/3
5th of september - 22nd of september
|Studsgade 46
TALKS: Art and reality check by Vira Baldyniuk (journalist and art critic, UA) & Howling Houses & Screeching Tires by Ella Ziegler (artist, D) EXHIBITIONS: Cultural codes by Vova Vorotniov (artist, UA) & Eternal Sukkah by Diego Rotman (artist, IS)
Time & Location
5th of september - 22nd of september
Studsgade 46, Studsgade 46, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
About the event
In the second part of Where we live? Looking for safe ground, we have invited artists and theorists coming from Kiev in Ukraine, Berlin and Jerusalem to discuss issues concerning public spaces, cultural memory, social belonging vs. exclusion, the physical space and the commons. This will happen through talks, presentations of art works and art practices and research in the urban space.
Art and reality check by Vira Baldyniuk [UA]
The war and Russian occupation affects political and social life in Ukraine in the worst ways. In this situation, the agenda of culture and art is full of challenges. As never before an artist cannot stay politically neutral. One can observe an opposition between (post)liberal and conservative views, left and right, „patriotic” and „betrayal” discourse in media and culture. How can art answer to all these extremes?
Vira Baldyniuk is the Ukrainian journalist,editor, literature researcher and critic, writer. She is…